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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 36-39.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is paging Carl while he's talking to Helen?
(a) Nash
(b) Oyster
(c) Mona
(d) Duncan

2. What does Nash say he's done to make sure that the police will know what he knows?
(a) Has recorded their conversation
(b) Left a letter that includes the details with a friend
(c) Had an interview with the police
(d) Wrote a story for the newspaper

3. What is the topic of the song that Carl reads to Duncan?
(a) The stars coming out at night
(b) Children going to sleep
(c) Flowers blooming on a creek bank
(d) Animals going to sleep

4. When does Carl decide he'll call the police about his role in Duncan's death?
(a) After the body is discovered
(b) After it's apparent that Duncan isn't at work
(c) After he calls Helen
(d) He doesn't

5. What is the effect of the spell Carl chants?
(a) Mona dies
(b) He floats to the ceiling
(c) The chandelier disappears
(d) Money falls from the chandelier

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of house does Helen say she and her husband lived in when their son, Patrick, died?

2. Why did sailors of years ago leave pigs and goats on islands?

3. What is the setting for the story Carl reads about the 1983 case in which the nurse's aide kills a patient?

4. What is the newscast that Helen hears that she encourages the others to listen to?

5. What is the image the owners usually see reflected in the water in the tub?

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